What keeps an atheist from raping and killing as much as he wants?

I can't wait to reminense about these threads in the same way that people thing back fondly on old /b/

Don't worry, I'll be here to remember this swath of shit posting. Anyone remember when that fag kept posting never ending story crap about god and shit? Good times.

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>>743981025
>believes he will still be here in a couple of years

Are atheists te saddest beings in existence?

>>743981134
What a delicious little boy

>>743980945
Ok I'll bite.
>Common decency

maybe it's because of a set of moral and ethical standards people lay out for themselves based on personal experience?

"i attempt to avoid suffering so i should attempt to prevent others from suffering as well"

HOLY SHIT!!! I remember these threads. What a blast from the past. Old /b/ was great, lol

>>743980945
what keeps a Christian from doing it, even though it says to do so to your enemies in the bible?

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>>743981379
>atheists
>decent

Aren't you the people attacking Christians for saying out loud the word "God" while allowing millions of muslims to take over your countries and marry your children in the name of tolerance?

>>743980945

Is the fear of God's pimp hand the thing that prevents religious cunts from raping and killing as much as they secretly wish to?

You're not good people then.

I think you are mistaking Atheist and anarchist

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>>743981616
Show me socialists/communists/anarchist/leftists that aren't atheist or Jewish.

>>743981543
>attacking Christians for saying out loud the word "God"
Did this happen? I personally haven't attacked any Christians recently.

also though wouldn't it b the religious who fear the reprisal of hell and atheists working from a set of logically gained ethics?

In fact the fear of hell or religious punishment doesn't even prevent religious people from committing atrocities.

>>743981685
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism

>>743980945
It part of the feedback loop are brains are hopefully born with the ability to do

>you hurt someone
>something happens to teach you how bad you made that someone feel
>hopefully, you take that feeling as an indicator of behavioral change

the best way for this to work is to learn empathy from small things (fights, name calling, etc..)

if you didn't develop empathy at a young age I would wager you are more likely to move on to the big things (murder, rape, etc..)

>>743980945
the fact that raping and killing is fucking wrong lmfao do you need an imaginary friend to tell you that

>>743981784
>some guys on reddit and other blogs prove that anarchism is a Christian movement

Atheists don't deny it. Lefties are primarly atheists.

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>>743980945
No, you idiot.

Atheists ate the ones who felt on their own morals to not be shitty. With no fear of hell, it's up to them to decide whether or not to rape and kill. An atheist who doesn't is genuinely moral.

Theists are the ones with no moral code, simply being kept in line by a fear of divine judgment. If an officially sanctioned revision of the bible allowed rape and murder, theists would go to town.

3/10 made me reply.

You're still a moron, though.

I am an atheist and I rape and murder as much as I want. how much raping and murdering do I want to do? none. none at all. because it's a shitty thing to do.

>>743982193
Fucking capitalize u asshat, that was so fucking assenine to read

>>743982431
*^*asinine*^*

>>743980945

My biologically evolved and evolutionarily selected-for empathy wiring.

No sky dad required.

>>743980945
Tired, used meme is stale. GTFO /b/

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>>743982102

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Can atheists disprove this image?

>>743980945
i do rape and kill as much as i want

the amount i want is zero

the idea that morality is tied to religion is a silly meme, post something better

>>743980945
being an atheist does not mean you have not a moral compass.
Moral compass is given by religion, of course, but ultimatelly by society, family and education.

>>743980945
you christians are too ugly. I can't keep it up with you fags anymore

>>743980945
this thread is still happening like 3 years later?

>>743980945
Is God the one telling you to choose these images that sexualize a child? Asking for an atheist.

>>743982102
How can theist ever recover?

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>>743982674
She is a perfect symbol of the innocence and purity of religion.

Only perverted, evil atheists would see something different in her.

>>743980945
>What keeps an atheist from raping and killing as much as he wants?
I don't want to do those things

Pretty easy

>>743982588
/thread

>>743980945
If the fear of god is the only thing stopping you from doing these things, you're a bad person.
Also religion doesn't have a monopoly on ethics and morals, heck religions formed because we wanted to formalize the ethics and morals we developed through our survival tactics of cooperating with and protecting the tribe.

>>743982567
Anybody with a cursory background in evolution can "disprove" that image. "There are millions of these" pointing to a distant ancestor should read, "All of these are extinct, just like all the rest depicted here other than modern man."

>>743982567
middle ones is niggers

Normal people don't need a god to keep us from doing bad shit. Empathy, compassion, morals.

Are you as a christian saying that you would rape, steal, murder and so on unless you feared god?

>>743982755
>innocence and purity of religion

naive and uneducated?

Ethics dumbfuck. Moral standards are not exclusive to religion.

>>743982835
Well, and is there any proof for this "common ancestor"?

>>743980945
It's called a moral compass instilled by good parenting, as opposed to superstitious dogma embraced out your fear of prison, which was instilled by the realization that you're a dysfunctional sociopath desperate to avoid the consequences of unrestrained impulse driven by your personality disorders and probable psychopathy, and at best a pathetically damaged individual whose future is best served by meek obedience rather than your own judgement.

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>>743981685
Tami Stronach, the actress that played the childlike empress? Her mother was a jew. Her father was scottish.
Your symbol of purity is a kilt wearing jew
I am laughing at every thread you ever posted

>>743982956
Yes, plenty. Next question?

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>>743980945
Because no one in religion has ever raped or murdered anyone. ever.

>>743982102
Just look at muslims. Their holy book allows rape and murder in the name of their God, and look at how the average muslim acts?

>>743982431
USE THE FULL FUCKING WORD, YOU MOTHER FUCKER!

>>743980945
you don't rape and don't kill because you are a human who has empathy, and you understand the pain of others. You don't want to live in a society where people rape and kill, and so you strive to build such a society.

if the only reason you don't rape and kill is because you're afraid of big daddy in the sky, you're not moral, you're a little faggot who's scared of his invisibile friend

Like Penn says, I do rape as much as I want. That amount is 0.

If you need religion to stop you from raping, you're a horrible human being.

>>743982956
It's there pretty plainly when you look at our DNA.
I mean you have DNA in common with parsley, how hard is it to believe we had a common ancestor with gorillas and chimps?

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>>743982755
if i remember correctly she sat in bed waiting for a possibly non existent being that no one else thinks exists to solve everything for her.....

wait....

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>>743980945
Morality and ethics is rooted in the survival instinct and inextricably linked to emotions. Therefore, religion and rationality are equally irrelevant to morality and ethics.

The sense of moral superiority felt by the judge who wants to place a monument to the 10 commandments in the public courthouse is no better than the sense of moral superiority the Islamic terrorist feels as he's sawing off a hostage's head.

>>743983047
Really?

People don't know where exactly the first humans came to be. They found a new skelleton a few months ago which proved all previous theories wrong.

How can atheists still believe that the evolution THEORY is right if there are new contradictions every few years?

>>743980945
>Religion has to be the moral compass
>Can't comprehend parents who don't need to rely on lies to teach children morals

>>743983207
Please look up what theory means in a scientific context, then come back and try to use that word as if it invalidates anything.

>>743983207
you don't know what you are talking about

and guess what, even if the theory of evolution was disproved right now, it wouldn't make creationism correct

learn basic logic if you want to debate anything, seriously

>>743983281
>a scientific THEORY means that nothing has to be proven and still billions will believe it because science

I'll stay with my morals and religion.

>>743981991
>Shows evidence against your belief
>Can't possibly be wrong
>Reconciles belief
>Clearly an imbecile

>>743980945
being attracted to sexually mature women

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>>743982755
>Only perverted, evil atheists would see something different in her.

That's rich coming from a Xtian. Xtians are responsible for more bloodshed and suffering than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, & Pot combined.

Protip: Don't shit where you've already shat.

>>743981991
>Lefties are primarly atheists.
Ignoring all the deeply religious Christians on the left, you would be correct.

>>743980945
I dunno, what motivates you to keep posting this over and over again?

It's the dangerous, borderline nutbars, who are 1 anger management issue from lethal injection are always the ones who see religion as the guide they need. Or if they do cross the line, they see claiming to have found God as their get out of jail card.

>>743981685
I'm politically aligned with anarchism (different than anarchy) and I am a Buddhist. Which is not atheism contrary to popular belief.

OP does not have a moral compass. He needs "God" to tell him what's good and bad.

OP is a faggot.
OP can't stop sucking dicks
OP feels guilty and ashamed that he is both gay and Christian.
OP is the quintessential form of faggotry
Too bad you won't be able to shitpost in Hell, OP

>>743980945
I believe in God, but I was atheist in fact they one type of best ppl in the world, I believe God create them for the balance to avoid to much stupidity, they follow nature and universal physics laws, which make them pritty conservative and try to make the humanity to preserve for the genes, its a natural instinct... no to be a fucking chimpout behavior, to life forever, enjoy forever

>>743980945
Common sense and decency towards his fellow man. Next question.

>>743983207
Also contradictions every few years is good anon, it means we're getting more accurate at this science thing.
>>743983325
>a scientific THEORY means that nothing has to be proven and still billions will believe it because science.
>I'll stay with my morals and religion.
You clearly don't know what a theory means in a scientific context, also morals and religion isn't connected like you think they are.
Morals and ethics came first through our empathetic evolution, religions were the result of us trying to explain where these notions came from.

>>What keeps an atheist from raping >>and killing as much as he wants?

I kill and rape exactly as much as I want.

None.

>>743981540

Chapter and verse please?

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>>743983207

>>743981595

AND YOU WANT TO TAKE AWAY THE ONE THING THAT STOPS THEM FROM DOING SO?! What the hell is wrong with you?

>>743983029
>I am laughing at every thread you ever posted
That's a lot of laughing

>>743983325
You are a moron who doesn't know what scientific theory is. It's a general explanation of why things happen. Fucking moron. Something in science can only be considered a theory if it has insane amounts of evidence and correctly predicts outcomes all the time. Einsteins theory of relativity only became a theory once it was shown to be correct, over and over again. Before that it was a hypothesis. Evolution became a theory after Charles Darwin came up with more evidence for evolution, than there is for gravity. And guess what gravity is called for scientific purposes? The THEORY OF FUCKING GRAVITY YOU MONGOLOID.

>>743981134

You do realize Jesus was Jew, right?

>>743982861

If so, then are you wanting to take away from the Christians the one thing that would stop them from doing these evil acts? If you want to take a single person away from being Christian, then you may be taking away the one thing that would stop said person from wanting to do these malicious acts. Why would you want to do such a thing?

>>743983556
This guy gets it.

>>743983047
>>743982956

What IS this common ancestor? What was its name? What did it look like? What are some distinguishing characteristics of this magical mythical creature? Do we have a skeleton or anything? Do we know anything about this creature other than "it MUST have existed otherwise this belief we evolved from apes might be wrong?"

>>743983723
I'm pretty sure this is some fallacious reasoning, I'm just having trouble finding which kind. Anyone care to help an Anon out?

>>743983457

God has saved many people, some even more evil than the people you are referring to. Sometimes people have to go to the depths of depravity to see the light of salvation. The real test is seeing if the people that got saved really did change their lives, or are they simply just saying it.

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>>743983412
pic related

>>743983434
Name three famous ones

>>743983469
>Buddhist
believers of meme religion are not allowed to be in this thread

>>743983707
He wasn't. If you try to change the evil, greedy people called Jews you cannot be a member of them.

>>743983486

So do you want to take away the Bible, the one thing that would stop said person from doing bad things? If so, then why would you want to take away the one thing stopping someone from doing these bad things?

>>743983821
Even if we never found Homo(First) or common ancestor skeletons, the theory would still be a Scientific Theory. The genetic evidence alone is overwhelming, dumbass. Your demand for sppooky, scary skeletons is absolutely unneeded in order to scientifically proven evolution. There are Laws based off of evolutionary theory as well, faggot, so quit with this "muh theories" bullshit. Learn2biology, pl0x.

>>743981379
>Common decency?

Pretending that is a stand alone thing. That idea sprang from religion.

It certainly doesn't exist in nature. Nature says your pussy makes me horny. I will kill for it and/or I'll just take it.

Hell, in nature, females love their rapists.

>>743983821
>"it MUST have existed otherwise this DNA evidence we found, that shows we evolved from apes would be really confusing!"
FTFY

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religious morality

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>>743984121
Islam isn't a religion. It's a war sect. It's not Christians only trying to defend themselves against muslim rape hordes.

>>743984086
>nature is only the things I decide to put a spotlight on, using other examples of animals living together in cooperation is evidence of religious animals.

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Would they if they really believed god was watching?

>>743981685
ehem.
Literally Hitler

>>743980945
even most animals have enough common sense to not go around murdering each other.

>>743980945
is the murder rate higher in bear on bear crime or people v. the other people.

Atheists don't believe johnny is God. Atheists equals boring people.

>>743980945
>What is ethics?

>>743980945
i generally dont give a shit about anything or anyone. still wouldnt kill or rape someone. it would be chaotic and disgusting.

>>743980945
i would say evolution is the reason we try to avoid rape too.

>>743981595

Completely backwards. We are good because it's right and we will receive a reward for it for eternity. Eternity.

Atheists exercise greater faith in the unknown. The math (odds against) required to explain us evolving from a puddle of mud are trillions to 1. Yet they believe because a moth changes colors (survival of the fittest) that an eye developed in the same way over billions of years. All positive mutations towards the eye.

Just ignore entropy because I want to be a hedonistic crotch fixated waste of space trying their best to break the the world record of masterbation

>>743983991
is religion ever a factor in crime statistics outside your bro science and general memery

>>743984624
you need to try harder

and don't try the "math" and "faith" shit, it just makes you seem even MORE retarded

>>743984086
where does nature say that.

>>743984624
>Completely backwards. We are good because it's right and we will receive a reward for it for eternity. Eternity.
Do you have any credible evidence for that?

>Atheists exercise greater faith in the unknown. The math (odds against) required to explain us evolving from a puddle of mud are trillions to 1. Yet they believe because a moth changes colors (survival of the fittest) that an eye developed in the same way over billions of years. All positive mutations towards the eye.
You don't seem to understand the notion of survival of the fittest, nobody is claiming all mutations were good, just that the beneficial mutations kept existing because they enabled the individual entity to survive better than it's peers.
>Just ignore entropy because I want to be a hedonistic crotch fixated waste of space trying their best to break the the world record of masterbation.
You're talking about entropy like the earth is a closed system, it isn't, it gets supplied with new energy every day from the sun.

>>743981543
>catholics
aren't you the people that burned people alive and commited genocide multiple times because of different beliefs ?
this can go on forever

>>743981938
Apes don't seem to understand what you consider so funny.

Nor lions, walruses, birds, polar bears, or any other species.

Be honest. You are lazy and a slave to your passions.

There is a God. 1 day you will finally know this and you will think (while trembling) why was he so hidden?

Exert no effort to find out yourself and then blame him. Classic.

>>743980945
>What keeps a catholic from raping and killing as much as he wants?

>The fear of reprisal?

>Is the fear of hell the only thing that prevents and upper breakdown of society by those without a moral compass?

>>743984624
habe you in the last 8 years read anything released by a competent member of the church denying evolution?

Does evolution contradict adam and eve?

Does the church pay staff to investigate the biological scientific existence of humanity or do they just think the bible is 100% correct as is.

>>743985125
>This guy came to the same conclusions as I did, without being religious, he must be secretly religious. This can't be a sign of how humans evolved to survive.

>>743982102
What you describe covers very few would be serial killer types.

Most that believe have put forth the effort to findicate out if it's bullshit or not. Just like a scientist attempt to valudate others claims, they perform the experiment and decide for themselves if there is a God.

But overall, they are good people to start with that would never rape or kill.

>>743985125
are you sure that those animals kill each other more than humans.

on a same species to species ratio

>>743982567
When will people fucking learn, that the apes we evolved from and the ones walking on the earth right now, are not the same fucking species.

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>>743980945
Definitive Nhilism.

>>743985125
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201212/humanlike-violence-is-not-seen-in-other-animals%3famp

>>743980945
No, the thing stopping atheists from committing horrible acts is simply a rational consideration of the consequences of our actions. You're asking the wrong question. What's stopping religious people from doing whatever they want? All they have to do is ask forgiveness, and it's as if it never happened. That's how you get the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, after raping murdering and cannibalizing dozens of young men, being eligible for heaven since he prayed for forgiveness, while Bill Gates, who has selflessly dedicated his life and billions of dollars to improve the world, end poverty, increase education, is destined for an eternity in hell. All because he doesn't believe that for which there is no credible evidence. Wonderful moral system you have there.

>>743985522
Sauce???

>>743980945
>What keeps an atheist from raping and killing as much as he wants?
absolutely nothing
it just so happens that the amount of raping and killing we want to do is zero

>>743980945
What keeps a christian from raping and killing as much as he wants?

The fear of reprisal?

Is the fear of hell the only thing that prevents an upper breakdown of society by those without a moral compass?

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>>743980945
>What keeps an atheist from raping and killing as much as he wants?

One word answer: empathy

/thread

>>743984857
kek.

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>>743980945
>fear of prison

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>>743987544
But atheists don't have feelings like empathy.

They are happy when they can abort white children or take over the government in a socialist revolution to kill millions of religions people but otherwise they completely lack any negative or positive feelings.

>>743983878
It'd be like saying you're (x) responsible for someone (z) killing someone else, because they (z) only killed the person once you (x) got them to sober up and go to AA. You did a good thing, but the person you helped did a bad thing, and therefore by twisted logic, you're responsible.

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>>743987703
>happy when they can abort white children

oh yeah. they throw parties when they abort. pic related. abortion party.

>>743984086
Common decency existed before religion.

>>743987966

thisssss

>>743987703
>People who are not like me can't feel empathy.
>My failure to understand them isn't a sign of me lacking empathy.

>>743985717
You understand functional autistic people are almost 100% logical, therefore god would be an illogical concept. Psychopaths are also 100% logical, and are not at all religious. Too many logical fallacy's have to occur to believe in god.
>If god is omnipotent, why couldn't he create a world without moral tests?
>If god is all knowing, then he already knows how you're going to react to these tests and EXACTLY what you'll do meaning free will doesn't exist.
>if God is omnipotent and all knowing, how come he couldn't create a world without sin, where you'd be tested without ever having to be tested (ridiculous to us, but that nigger is all knowing and all powerful, nothing is ridiculous to him)?

Atheists are atheists. They're not unfettered murderers. Religious people kill as well. Having respect for existence is inherent to the majority of humanity.

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>>743988584

Because god is kind of a dick. He likes seeing people suffer, and their reward for the faithful is to be his adoring slaves in heaven.

>>743980945
atheist doesnt mean psychopath
/thread

>>743984396
>Hitler
>leftie

Wow

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>>743980945

>>743990995
>socialist
>not leftie

>>743982567

nope. i'm an atheist, and that is a real image.

>>743991050
>national socialism was lefty socialism

Jesus

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>>743981134
How can you look at this and not believe in god?

>>743983207

The word ‘theory’ in The Theory of Evolution does not imply invalidity, scientific theories have been proven and are almost unanimously accepted in the scientific community.

A scientific law is a statement about an observable result that is the same every time. A theory is an attempt to explain the cause behind that result happening.

The theory can change or be supplanted based on new understanding, the law is the observable result and should not ever change unless it wasn't legitimately observed in the first place.

A law is just a statement on fact based on something you can observe objectively, a theory is an attempt to explain the causes behind that law.

>>743991123
Wait there is a third never-ending story movie?

>>743983572

and while they are at it, the chapter and verse that specifically says jesus was born on December 25th.

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>>743991101
>>743989700
>>743988783
>>743987703
> mfw we discover who is behind atheism

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>>743982674
I think /you/ have the dirty mind here

>>743991216
There is. it's fucking terrible, but worth a watch once.

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>>743987703
>They are happy when they can abort white children or take over the government in a socialist revolution to kill millions of religions people

Don't forget low level stuff like pushing children into trans lifestyles as young as kindergarten. It's funny how atheists think they actually have morals, they have so many blind spots it's ridiculous.

> mfw my date takes off her panties and i discover she's got a bigger cock than me
thanks atheists

Weed.

>>743991359
I dunno man, I don't want to taint my memory of the first two with a shit third.

>>743980945
you can care for others and not belive in god, stupid.

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>>743991845
Are you kidding? Look at this production value, how can you say no to this action packed thrill ride

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>>743982755
>Only perverted evangelicals

>>743992110
Holy fuck, I'm glad I've never seen that now.
The first two were good and decent looking in spite of the low tech movie props and sets.

>>743982956
Literally tons. And I mean that as a measure of weight. There's literally multiple tons of evidence. None of it you idiots will accept though. Which is ironic seeing as you believe in a jewish magic dragon rider but not evidence right in front of your fucking face.

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>>743987622
>>>743980945 (OP)
>>fear of prison

>>743980945
Generally speaking, people want to rape and kill.(Not an atheist btw, just saying)

>>743980945
We do not behave "morally" for fear of reprisal. We behave as we do because we are social creatures. We evolved to form societies for a reason. We act as we do because we understand that what may seem immediately beneficial to us is not beneficial to the group and therefore ourselves in the long run. Our success as a species is due to our ability to function as a collective. We were forming orderly societies before the concept of deities existed.